Who were the ancient Chinese painters?

Gu Kaizhi, Wu Daozi, Yan Liben, Wang Wei, Zhang Zeduan.

1, Gu Kaizhi

Gu Kaizhi (348 years - 409 years), the word Changkang, the small character tiger, Han nationality, Jinling Wuxi (now Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province). He was an outstanding painter, painting theorist and poet. Gu Kaizhi was an erudite and versatile artist, skilled in poetry and calligraphy, and especially good at painting.

Gu Kaizhi was good at portraits, statues of Buddha, animals and birds, landscapes, etc., and was known as the "three greats": the "great of painting", the "great of writing", and the "great of obsession". Xie An y valued it, and thought that it had not existed since Cangsheng. Gu Kaizhi, together with Cao Buxing, Lu Tanwei and Zhang Shengqiao, was known as the "Four Great Masters of the Six Dynasties". Gu Kaizhi's paintings were intended to convey the spirit, and his thesis of "moving the mind and getting it right" and "writing God in form" laid the foundation for the development of traditional Chinese painting.

2. Wu Daozi

Wu Daozi (about A.D. 680-759) was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty, honored as the Sage of Painting in the history of painting, and also known as Daoxuan. He was a Han Chinese, a native of Yangzhai (present-day Yuzhou, Henan Province). He was born around 680 AD (the first year of the Yonglong reign) and died around 758 AD (the first year of the Qianlong reign). He was orphaned and poor, but became famous for his paintings when he was young. He was a lieutenant of Yanzhou County (present-day Ziyang, Shandong Province), but soon resigned.

Then he went to Luoyang, where he was engaged in mural painting. During the Kaiyuan period, he was summoned to the court for his skill in painting, and served as an envoy, a doctor of internal education, and a friend of the King of Ning. He studied calligraphy with Zhang Xu and He Zhizhang, and realized the way of using the brush by watching Gongsun Damiang's sword dance. He was good at Buddhism, Taoism, gods and ghosts, figures, landscapes, birds and animals, plants and trees, and buildings, etc. He was especially good at Buddhism and Taoism, figures, and was long in the creation of frescoes.

3. Yan Liben

Yan Liben (about 601-673), a native of Wannian, Yongzhou (Lintong District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province), was a politician and painter of the Tang Dynasty.

During the Sui Dynasty, Yan Liben was a senior official at the rank of Daifu (朝散大夫) and Shouzuo Shaojian (将作少监). In the first year of Xianqing of Tang Emperor Gaozong (656), Yan Liben succeeded his elder brother Yan Lide as the chief craftsman, and in the same year, he was promoted from chief craftsman to minister of works. In the first year of the General Chapter (668), Yan Lipen was promoted to be the right minister, and was appointed as a man of Boling County. At that time, Jiang Ke was appointed as the left minister for his achievements in war, so there was a saying that "the left minister declared the desert, and the right minister was famous for his work".

4, Wang Wei

Wang Wei (701-761), the word Mojizi, the name Mojizi Jushi, east of the river Pozhou (present-day Yuncheng, Shanxi). He was a famous poet and painter in the Tang Dynasty.

Wang Wei was born into the Hedong Wang Clan, and his ancestral home was Qixian County, Shanxi Province. In the 19th year of the reign of Emperor Kaiyuan (731), he was awarded the title of Scholar of the Scholarship, and became an official of the Right Gleaner, Supervisory Royal Historian, and Judge of the Heshi Sectional Commission. During the Tianbao years of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he was appointed as a minister of the Ministry of Revenue and a counselor. When An Lushan captured Chang'an, Wang Wei was forced to accept a false post. After the recapture of Chang'an, he was authorized to be the Crown Prince's Counselor. During the Qianyuan period of Emperor Suzong of Tang Dynasty, he was appointed as the right minister of the Shangshu Department, so he was called "right minister of Wang" in the world.

5, Zhang Zeduan

Zhang Zeduan, word Zhengdao, Han nationality, Luangya Dongwu (present-day Shandong Zhucheng), living in Tokyo (present-day Kaifeng, Henan). He was a painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. During the Xuanhe period, he served as an imperial edict of the Hanlin, specializing in the painting of buildings, houses, forests and trees, as well as people. The customary paintings of the marketplace, bridges, streets, city and castle carving detailed, accurate boundary painting, bean people inch horse, the image of life since childhood, traveled to Bianjing (present-day Kaifeng, Henan Province), and then studied painting.

Song Huizong served in the Hanlin Painting Academy, specializing in boundary painting palace, especially good at painting boats and trucks, markets, bridges, streets, cities and towns. Later, he "lost his position and sold paintings to make a living, writing the West Lake Scramble Map and Qingming Shanghe Tu". Surviving works include "Qingming Riverside Drawing" and "Jinming Pond Scramble Drawing" (still controversial), all of which are treasures of China's ancient art.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Gu Kai Zhi

Baidu Encyclopedia - Yan Liben

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Baidu Encyclopedia - Wang Wei

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhang Zeduan